third order magazine

faith, fiction & the occasional extraterrestrial

Current Issue:

third order

winter 08

About the magazine.

Third Order is a literary webzine created to engage with issues of
faith and religion through mainstream, traditional, experimental and speculative
short fiction.

We work on the presumption that faith and religion reach out, in some way, to
all people; that they fire both mass movements and single human hearts; and
that, instead of being forgotten remnants of a bygone age, they are crucial
elements of what it means to be human in the modern world.

The term "third order" refers to tertiary groups
affiliated with Catholic religious orders of men and women, such as the
Franciscans and the Dominicans. Often, the members of these "third
orders" are laypeople searching for a way to live out their faith, their
questions, their grey areas, and their dreams in an imperfect world. We hope
that the stories in Third Order will be very much the same, and that
authors will feel free to explore issues of faith and religion in their stories,
whether those stories are realistic or fantastic.

We are a fledgling, privately-funded web market. For submission information, click on
"Guidelines."

site info

Third Order is edited and coded for the web by Karen Osborne,
a writer and creative type currently based in Orlando, Florida.